REST Contract Job Trends in the North West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 67 91
Rank change year-on-year -13 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing REST 112 67 29
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.82% 3.05% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.07% 13.65% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 63 24
10th Percentile £380 £334 £324
25th Percentile £425 £380 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £546
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -21.28% +9.25%
75th Percentile £600 £481 £650
90th Percentile £644 £500 £718
England median daily rate £525 £492 £528
% change year-on-year +6.71% -6.73% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £77.25 - -
25th Percentile £80.63 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £36.00
75th Percentile £89.38 - -
90th Percentile £89.75 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -32.43% -2.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 697 491 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.53% 22.33% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 378 254
10th Percentile £400 £323 £324
25th Percentile £430 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -5.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £630 £538 £575
90th Percentile £700 £678 £675
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 4 7
10th Percentile £57.50 £27.20 £42.11
25th Percentile £62.50 £29.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £75.00 £51.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +7.37% +2.86%
75th Percentile £77.00 £76.81 £73.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £89.08 £79.70
England median hourly rate £66.83 £54.35 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.96% -16.38% +8.33%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

REST job vacancy trend in the North West

REST
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing REST

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the North West over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the North West

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing REST

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in the North West over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +18 91 £550 +23.60% 111
Cheshire -25 15 £525 +23.53% 8
Lancashire -22 2 £650 -2.99% 11
Merseyside - 1 - - 2
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.57%) Confluence
2 2 (1.79%) Apache
2 2 (1.79%) SAS
3 1 (0.89%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.89%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.07%) AWS
2 28 (25.00%) Azure
3 16 (14.29%) GitHub
3 16 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (12.50%) GCP
5 13 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (7.14%) Serverless
7 7 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (5.36%) Anthropic Claude
8 6 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (5.36%) Google Gemini
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.04%) SD-WAN
1 9 (8.04%) WAN
2 7 (6.25%) Wireless
3 5 (4.46%) HTTP
4 4 (3.57%) Network Security
5 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.79%) BGP
6 2 (1.79%) DNS
6 2 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.79%) Firewall
6 2 (1.79%) MPLS
6 2 (1.79%) OSPF
7 1 (0.89%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.89%) DWDM
7 1 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.89%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.89%) Multicast
7 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.89%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.82%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.25%) MySQL
2 7 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.36%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.68%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.79%) Power BI
5 2 (1.79%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.79%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.79%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.89%) Big Data
6 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.89%) Metadata
6 1 (0.89%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 30 (26.79%) Git
2 12 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.82%) Claude Code
4 8 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 7 (6.25%) JIRA
5 7 (6.25%) JUnit
6 6 (5.36%) GitLab
7 5 (4.46%) Mockito
7 5 (4.46%) Postman
7 5 (4.46%) Selenium
8 4 (3.57%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.68%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.68%) TestRail
9 3 (2.68%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.68%) Zephyr
10 2 (1.79%) Maven
10 2 (1.79%) MSTest
10 2 (1.79%) NUnit
10 2 (1.79%) TestNG
11 1 (0.89%) Xcode
General
1 40 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.07%) Finance
3 12 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.04%) Retail
5 5 (4.46%) Military
6 4 (3.57%) Banking
6 4 (3.57%) iGaming
7 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.89%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Legal
8 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (27.68%) Developer
2 26 (23.21%) Senior
3 18 (16.07%) Java Engineer
4 16 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 12 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Architect
7 8 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.36%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Test Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Automation Developer
9 5 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) ServiceNow Specialist
9 5 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.57%) Network Engineer
10 4 (3.57%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.89%) Spring
1 29 (25.89%) Spring Boot
2 24 (21.43%) Kafka
3 18 (16.07%) React
3 18 (16.07%) Terraform
4 16 (14.29%) Node.js
5 14 (12.50%) GraphQL
6 13 (11.61%) JSON
6 13 (11.61%) SOAP
7 12 (10.71%) OAuth
8 9 (8.04%) Vue
9 8 (7.14%) AngularJS
9 8 (7.14%) Next.js
10 7 (6.25%) Django
10 7 (6.25%) RESTful
11 6 (5.36%) XML
12 5 (4.46%) Flask
12 5 (4.46%) HTML
12 5 (4.46%) Playwright
13 4 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.11%) Cloud Native
2 18 (16.07%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (11.61%) Onboarding
4 8 (7.14%) AI Agents
5 6 (5.36%) CMDB
6 4 (3.57%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.68%) Culture of Ownership
7 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.68%) IoT
7 3 (2.68%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.79%) FMCG
8 2 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Linux
2 6 (5.36%) Android
3 4 (3.57%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.57%) Windows
4 3 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (72.32%) CI/CD
2 52 (46.43%) Agile
3 43 (38.39%) Test Automation
4 40 (35.71%) Observability
5 39 (34.82%) Microservices
6 34 (30.36%) Software Engineering
7 32 (28.57%) DevOps
7 32 (28.57%) Event-Driven
8 27 (24.11%) AI
8 27 (24.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 23 (20.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (16.07%) Mentoring
13 17 (15.18%) Data Modelling
14 16 (14.29%) Clean Code
15 15 (13.39%) Code Quality
16 14 (12.50%) SDLC
17 13 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.54%) Java
2 29 (25.89%) TypeScript
3 22 (19.64%) JavaScript
4 20 (17.86%) Python
5 19 (16.96%) SQL
6 9 (8.04%) Kotlin
7 6 (5.36%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.57%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.57%) C#
8 4 (3.57%) Swift
9 2 (1.79%) Bash
10 1 (0.89%) ABAP
10 1 (0.89%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.89%) Bicep
10 1 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 18 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 5 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.68%) CCNP
5 3 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.79%) CCIE
6 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.89%) CISSP
7 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.29%) QA
2 12 (10.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.79%) NIST
3 2 (1.79%) SLA
3 2 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (24.11%) Docker
2 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.68%) Firmware
3 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (33.93%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.04%) Ansible
3 3 (2.68%) Grafana
4 2 (1.79%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.79%) WMI
5 1 (0.89%) Nagios
5 1 (0.89%) Netcool
5 1 (0.89%) Puppet
5 1 (0.89%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (11.61%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.46%) Cisco
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle
6 2 (1.79%) F5
6 2 (1.79%) Google
6 2 (1.79%) Okta
6 2 (1.79%) SAP
6 2 (1.79%) VMware
7 1 (0.89%) AlgoSec
7 1 (0.89%) Arista
7 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.89%) IBM
7 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.89%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.89%) Snow
7 1 (0.89%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.89%) Splunk
7 1 (0.89%) Workday